1. Starbucks Day of Action March 20th, in a city near you!
2. TOWN RALLY AGAINST SUSSEX GM CROP
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1. Starbucks Day of Action March 20th, in a city near you!
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Organic Consumers Association along with other Fair Trade, environmental, and food safety activists are gearing up for a worldwide campaign focused on Starbucks. On Tuesday March 20, 2001 (the date of Starbucks annual shareholder meeting in Seattle), activists will be organizing leafleting and media events in front of Starbucks in over 100 cities. come out and tell starbucks what you think. calling on Starbucks to:
stop using genetically engineered (GE) ingredients in its products
pledge to never use GE coffee
start brewing and actively promoting Fair Trade coffee in its cafes
follow through completely and transparently on a previous agreement to improve the working conditions on the coffee plantations which supply them with coffee.
See if there is a demonstration near you, if not, organize one yourself! http://www.purefood.org/Starbucks/cities.htm
www.purefood.org/Starbucks/starbucks.htm...
Dear Starbuck Organisers,
This is a short note to let you know that notice of your protest action has been posted to http://mai.flora.org/ and a request made to distribute your notice. http://mai.flora.org
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2. TOWN RALLY AGAINST SUSSEX GM CROP
Speakers and procession
Invite offended beasties and vegetables, mutants also welcome to protest their fate.
12 Noon on Saturday 24 March 2001
The car park of The Quintins Shopping Centre, North Street, Hailsham
GENETIC CONTAMINATION IN EAST HOATHLY, SUSSEX
A field near East Hoathly in East Sussex (between Lewes and Heathfield, Uckfield and Hailsham) is to be the site for a GM farm scale evaluation trial site growing genetically modified (GM) oilseed rape in the open environment. The GM oilseed rape could be planted anytime from mid-March through April but not if the Sussex GenetiX Action group can stop it and they are currently throwing everything at it. The host farmer is: Mr Jeremy Courtney, Crouch's Farm, East Hoathly, E. Sussex. Voice your opposition to the trial to the host farmer and ask him not to plant the GM crop. This trial site has already catalysed local and regional opposition. Get involved in the campaign to stop the trial before it even begins. Contact Sussex GenetiX Action: 01273 628441.